Bug#4745: ls: --dereference doesn't

[branderh@IAEhv.nl]

>         `-L'
>         `--dereference'
>              List the files linked to by symbolic links instead of listing the
>              contents of the links.
> 
> However, neither of these appear to work:

What you want is that saying: 

ls -L bar

results in showing

foo

?  I doubt that such behaviour is wanted.  It might be that the
documentation should be rewritten on this, but I doubt thatt the
above mentioned behaviour is wanted.

Did you try ls -Ll  and ls -Ll bar, perhaps that will clearify.

Erick

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